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Every OCR A-Level Economics exam question on 2.7 Income distribution and welfare, 2021–2025, with its mark scheme and examiner’s report.
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All 12 questions on Income distribution and welfare, as a list
- June 2025, Paper 2, Q4 (25 marks): 4* The Central African Republic has a very uneven distribution of income and a low Human Development Index (HDI) value. Evaluate whether a very uneven distribut
- June 2024, Paper 2, Q4 (25 marks): 4* Nearly half of South Africa’s population was considered to be living in poverty in 2021. The South African government uses fiscal policy measures to reduce p
- June 2024, Paper 3, Q17 (1 mark): In a society where there is a perfectly unequal distribution of income, one person has all of the income and every other person has zero income. What would be t
- June 2024, Paper 3, Q29 (1 mark): What could have caused the shift in a country’s Lorenz curve shown in the diagram? Cumulative share of income 100 A B 0 100 Cumulative % of population A An incr
- June 2023, Paper 2, Q4 (25 marks): 4* Since 1978, more than 800 million people have been lifted out of poverty in China. In this period, the Chinese government has made increasing use of supply s
- June 2023, Paper 3, Q6 (1 mark): What is relative poverty in the UK? A Households are unable to afford the essentials needed for survival B Household income is below 60% of median household inc
- June 2023, Paper 3, Q12 (1 mark): Which of the diagrams illustrates the impact of an increase in the Gini coefficient? Cumulative % of income Pollution P2 P1 0 0 Y1 Y2 Real Cumulative GDP % of h
- June 2022, Paper 2, Q1(c) (4 marks): Using Fig. 2, explain the relationship between the Gini coefficient and economic growth rate. [4]
- June 2022, Paper 3, Q34 (2 marks): Explain, how the data in Fig. 2.1 can be used to measure the level of income inequality in the UK. [2]
- June 2022, Paper 3, Q36 (8 marks): Evaluate, using the information in Extract 2, whether subsidising research and development in ‘left behind regions’ would be the most effective macroeconomic po
- November 2021, Paper 2, Q5 (25 marks): 5* In 2018 both Australia and Ireland had a high Human Development Index (HDI), 0.939 and 0.938. They did, however, have different rates of poverty. Evaluate wh
- November 2021, Paper 3, Q28 (1 mark): What does the data in the table indicate has happened in the economy from 2016 to 2020? Year Gini-coefficient 2016 0.52 2017 0.49 2018 0.53 2019 0.58 2020 0.59
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